Corrine Brown Indicted on Corruption Charges, Officials Say

Orlando Sentinel

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been indicted on public corruption charges and is expected to arraigned in federal court in Jacksonville on Friday, two U.S. law enforcement officials said Thursday.

The charges are related to the Jacksonville Democratic lawmaker’s involvement with an unregistered charity in Virginia.

The officials, citing grand jury secrecy rules because the indictment remains sealed, declined to provide the exact nature of the charges. They declined to be identified because they are not authorized to discuss pending cases.

In March, the U.S. House Committee on Ethics said it had opened an investigation of Brown, just weeks after the director of a charity with ties to her pleaded guilty to fraud and agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.